Vocabulary (Part 1)
The relation between two organisms that benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
Two main sources of energy for living things.
What are the Sun and food?
Which of the following are decomposers?
Vulture, Earth Worm, Beetle, Grass, Fly, Deer,
Earth Worm, Beetle, Fly
Mouse and a Fles
What is Parasitism?
The place in which a plant or animal lives and receives what it needs to survive.
What is habitat?
When one organism benefits from another by causing damage.
What is parasitism?
An organism in a food chain that is able to make its own food.
What is a producer?
A grassy field with prairie dogs, grasshoppers, and wheat plants is an example of this.
What is a habitat?
Human and E coli
What is Mutualism
Relying on each other. |
What is interdependence?
The relation between two interdependent species of organisms.
What is symbiosis?
The interconnected feeding relationships within an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
In a forest, how do decomposers help other organisms survive?
They decompose items and put the nutrients back into the soil.
Hermit Crab and a Shell
What is commensalism?
A specific change to a physical feature or behavior of a species that helps the species to survive.
What is adaptation?
Of or relating to nutrition or feeding.
What is trophic?
The number of predators decreases.
What happens when a population of consumers decreases?
All living and non-living organisms in an environment are ______________
What is an ecosystem?
Cowbird and Bison
What is commensalism?
When one organism benefits from another without damaging it.
What is commensalism?
The diversity of plant and animal life in a habitat.
What is biodiversity?
leaves -> deer -> wolf
This is an example of what.
What is a food chain?
DAILY DOUBLE
Draw a food Chain and label the producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, and all other parts of a food chain.
Teacher will decide.
Bee and the Flower
What is Mutualism?
DAILY DOUBLE
1. Animals that eat only other animals.
2. Animals that are hunted and eaten by a predator.
3. Animals that eat both plants and animals.
4. Organisms in a food chain that break down organic matter.
5. Organisms in a food chain that eat other organisms, especially live ones.
6. Animals that eat only plants.
7. Animals that hunt and eat other animals to survive.
8. Animals that eat animals that are already dead.
What are
1. carnivores
2. prey
3. omnivores
4. decomposers
5. consumers
6. herbivores
7. predators
8. scavengers